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And now Gov. Harris denies the truth of the interview in which
he is quoted as saying that he would pardon anyone convicted and in
the state prison, who desired to enlist in the army for the Mexican
war. These reporters have a habit of misquoting the Governor,
from the time they reported him saying om the stump that he would
lot ask for a second term if the people of Georgia would just honor
bim and through his the Veterans, by cleeting him Governor, to this
latest misrepresentation. Now if this last report is as true as we
know the first has been, we are not holding it against the reporter. It
is no doubt true that as soon as the Governor seen tie quotation in
cold type he realized what a blunder he was making when suggesting
the lowering of the standard of the army by swapping convict stripes
for the uniform of the United States. -
“The Torrens Land Title bill seems to have the right of way in
this session of the Legislature.
ANSWERED
We notice no small number of German-American names
in the roster of militia companies going into service. We
always said nobody but a fool or a politician, for base poli
tical purposes, would question their loyalty to this country.
Anderson (S. C.) Daily Mail.
That’s right ; tell the truth and shame the devil. Or, more prop
erly speaking, shame the fools who have been indulging in all this
talk about the “disloyalty” of German-Americans and their descend
ants. :
There never was any foundation for such nonsensical talk, bat
for months and months past, we have heard little else.
It has been all right for some Anglo-Maniac to whoop-it-up for
Great Britain and her allies—and much of this talk has been but a
form of sickening snobbery—but if a German-America®, or one of
kis descendants, expressed a rather natural sympathy for the Fa
therland, he was, at once, put down as a disloyal “hyphenate.”
Yet, at the first call to arms in defense of our own country, they
are right there, shoulder to shoulder with thousands of other patriotic
Americans. Not that there is anything strange about this, or that
it wasn't to be expected; but it, at least, gives the proper answer to
those people who have been harping about “hyphenates.”
. By the way, did you read the muster roll of the Augusta com
panies that have already gone to the front? If you did, you
must have noticed the number of men of German blood that went out
with the first call.
And you must have noticed, too, that some who have indulged
in no little talk about “hyphenates” are still left behind.—The Au
gusta Chronicle,
DAYLIGHT AHEAD
Both the House and Senate are considering Free School Books
and Compulsory Education bills right at the beginning of their
session this week. If these general bills pass and receive the ap
proval of the Governor, which no doubt they would, it will not be
tecessary to push the local bill for Ben Hill county, though the gen
eral law will only partially, solve the school problem for the rural
schools. The compulsory feature, a three-months term, is not ade-
Guate to accomplish what the state should do in the way of prepar
ing its citizens for the battle of life, but it is a step toward improve
ment and can from time to time be amended to finally come up to
the requirements of the times. The bill for free school books most
likely to pass is the one providing free books for the primary grades.
As a half of a loaf is better than none, we shall be satisfied for the
time if the legislature passes even this small measare of relief and
takes this decided step in the direction of “better schools” for rural
whistricts., !
WEEVILS MARCHING ON
Agent Cunningham is in receipt of a report from the County
Farm Agent of Decatur, which says that he found boll weevils in
every cotton field he visited the past week. The report from the
County Agent of Grady also says the weevils are there in large num
bers. The weather is favorable for the weevils, and they are spread
ing all over the territory touched late last fall, and rapidly advancing
castward. We may expect them here in a month or two—Tifton
Daily Gazette.
DO YOU KNOW THAT—
Better wages make better health?
Better fealth makes better citizens?© —~ =TT
Better citizens make a better nation?
“The U. S. Public Health Service found.7B per cent of the rural
homes in a certain county unprovided with sanitary conveniences
of any kind?
Cholera is spread in the same manner as typhoid fever?
Scarlet fever kills over 10,000 Americans each year?
Hookworm enters through the skin?
He who builds up health kiys up treasure in the Bark of Na
iure?
THE LEADER ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1916.
NEW FACTS GIVEN }
IN LIFE OF SOLDIER"
Anything about our army and
that pertains to our soldier boys
is read with much interest nowa
days. ' Here are some of the new
est facts that are going the rounds
of the press: *
Adjutant is army clerk.
Caps worn only by officers.
Tobacco issued every week.
Supply company never drills.
Army rifle weighs 7 3-4 pounds.
Four-inch gun weighs five tons.
Cold tea is army drink on the
march. -
Artillery buglers must know
76 calls.
Beans are no longer a popular
army ration.
Each infantryman carries 130
bullets,
Leather puttees are worn only
by officers.
Artillery has hardest eye test
'ml_' recruits,
It takce six months to train a
cavalry hérse.
Engincers must be able to tie
48 difierent knots.
Officers pay for their own
equipment and uniforms.
| Mounted scouts carry pliers for
Lcutting‘ barbed wire.
i Captain acts almost entircly
| through his first sergeant,
. Aounted scouts are messeng
ers for regimental officers.
! Supply companies are least
armed, carrying only revolvers.
l Artillery horse collars are
| made of steel, lined with zinc.
| Fach shrapnel shell holds from
202 to 285 lead bullets.
Takes fourteen horses to pull a
single artillery gun section.
Roolies are taught marching
rcommand in three days.
| lestaurants are paid 73 cents
a day for each man’s board.
l Soldiers are required to sleep
from 10 p. m. until 6 a. m.
Regulation shoes are made of
liu:rscniric. Are waterproof.
Corporals and sergeants arc
vthe only non-commissioned offi
| cers.
Slogan of artillery is: Horses
first, equipment second, men last.
Only bible supplied each regi
ment is one carried by the chap
lain,
Each battalion of artillery car
ries three miles of telephone wire.
- No medals may be worn on field
service, -
Thirty minutes after man ap
plies to recruiting officer he is a
full-fledged soldier.
“Right dress” means put your
left hand on hip, turn head to
right and get in line.
Fach company has company
flag inscribed with regimental
number and company letter.
Armed soldier always salutes
when he passes United States
flag; unarmed soldier removes
hat.
Commanding officers give ad
vancing and retreating orders to
squad by signaling with hands.
30-30 bullets, used in rifles, have
killing range of three miles. Gun
is held at 45-degree angle.
“Officer of the day,” is appoint
ed each day; is responsible for
enforcement of all orders and
rules in camp.
Large flags of infantry are call
ed “colors,” smaller flags of cav
alry and artillery are called
“standards.”
Takes two years for engineer to
learn all duties, including suvey
ing, map making, bridge and road
building and signaling.
Fight kinds of signaling are
used—iwireless, telephone, tele
graph, flag, semaphone, helio
graph, bugle and whistle.
Any officer is liable for punish
‘ment for failure to return the sa
lute of private or other subordi
nate; it is an offense for privates
to salute non-commissioned offi
cers.
Do you need some fresh papers
on your cupboard shelves? If so,
call on us. Large bundles of old
nevwspapers at a nickel a bundle.
Leader-Enterprise.
Tomato Plants
Earliana Beauty Globe Stone
Extra fine plants. Eight
weeks old tint fruit, bud
formed. 100 75¢: 200
$1.25; 300 $2.00, sent by
Parcel Post, postagepaid.
Nancy Hall, Triumph, Bunch
and Yellow Yam sweet Pota
to Plants: 500 $1.25; 1000
$2.00, postage paid. We
fill orders ‘‘daily” in April. 1
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BELIEF OF HOKE SMITH
Atlanta, Ga., June 26.—Instead
of paying the widows or other de
pendents of soldiers who go to
Mexico a continuing pension in
future, United States Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, who
was in Atlanta yesterday, believ
es it would afford more timely re
lief and cost the government less
money to pay soldiers’ families
at the rate of $5O per month dur
ing hostilities.
When the military emergency
bill comes back to the senate
irom the senate military commit
tee, Senator Smith and other sen
ators will strongly support a pro
vision for such payments. The
bill as it passed the national
house of representatives carried
the provision, but the senate mili
tary committee saw fit to strike
it out.
) “I am intensely in faver of
peace,” said Senator Smith in dis
cussing national and internation
al affairs, “but at the same time
I shall vote for just as many
dreadnaughts as can be built at
a reasonable cost and for an all
round equipment and develop
ment of the navy that will make
any nation in the world prefer to
leave us alone.”
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Sunday $1.90 A B
Week-End $4.35 $4.45
Season $6.30 $6.15
Convenient Sunday and Week-End schedules and the best ac
commodations every day.
The new St. Simons Hotel is under new management and will.
promise perfect service and sea food will be a specialty this sea
son.
The Warm Springs Hotel has been completely renovated and‘
is under new management and the service will be more satisfacs
tory than ever before.
For further particulars inquire of any A. B, & A. Agent or
write : ]
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that give excess Weight, stiffness, and
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More than 200 different Makes and
Drands of Motor-Car, and Truek, Tires
were manufactured and sold in U. S. A.
last year, 1915, .
These totalled about 12,000,%}5? Tibes.,
Of that 12,000,000 total T&#s, the
B. I'. Goodrich Ceo. made and sold one-
Jourth, :
Yet,—Tires are only one of the 267
different lines of Rubber Goods made by
the Goodrich Rubbey Factory, which is
the largest in the W‘grld, with a 47-year
Llzperience.
This indicates the ‘‘Reascn-Why'?
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1914 6 11 6 66 lh 725
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